"UCL as alumni, faculty or researchers. UCL was founded on 11 February 1826 under the name London University, as an alternative to the Anglican universities of Oxford and Cambridge. London University's first Warden was Leonard Horner, who was the first scientist to head a British university. Despite the commonly held belief that the philosopher Jeremy Bentham was the founder of UCL, his direct involvement was limited to the purchase of share No. 633, at a cost of £100 paid in nine instalments between December 1826 and January 1830. In 1828 he did nominate a friend to sit on the council,"
"with the young friar's ideas. He was not condemned formally but was forced to remain in Avignon under a type of house arrest. John Lutterell John Lutterell (died 1335) was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and university chancellor. Lutterell was a Dominican and a Canon of Salisbury Cathedral. He was Chancellor of Oxford University from 1317–22. However, he was so disliked by the regent masters at Oxford that he was expelled as Chancellor there. John Lutterell went to Avignon in 1323 where he hoped to advance his career at the papal court. He carried with him a booklet of 56"
"Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic The Grote Chair of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic is an endowed chair at University College London. Along with Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Logic (originally called Logic and the Philosophy of the Human Mind) was one of two Philosophy chairs established at the founding of University College London. The first Mind and Logic professorship was awarded to John Hoppus, a Congregational minister, who held the position from 1830 to 1866. George Grote, one of the college's founders and a member of its governing council, objected to the appointment"
"be penitent. His family was admitted to see him, and attempts made to obtain a remission of the sentence, but the sole concession granted was that his quarters should be delivered to his friends. On 31 August he was taken in a cart to the place of execution, and made a long speech, chiefly to clear himself from the charge of being a papist. He was then hanged and quartered. His body was buried the next evening at St. Gregory's Church, by St. Paul's. Stephen College Stephen College (also Colledge) (c.1635–1681) was an English joiner, activist Protestant, and supporter of"
"Sion College library. He died in his seventieth year in 1651, and was buried in his church in Watling Street, which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666. George Walker (Puritan) George Walker (c.1581–1651) was an English clergyman, known for his strong Puritan views. He was imprisoned in 1638 by William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, an affair that was later raised against Laud at his trial. He became a member of the Westminster Assembly in 1643. Anthony à Wood called Walker a ""severe partisan"", while Thomas Fuller said he was ""a man of an holy life, humble"
"a brilliant portrait of Lankester, including his friendship with Karl Marx. (Lankester was one of the eight people at Marx's funeral.) He has also been suggested as the model for Professor Challenger in Arthur Conan Doyle's ""The Lost World"", but Doyle himself said that Challenger was based on a professor of physiology at the University of Edinburgh named William Rutherford. Lankester never married. In 1895, he was arrested and acquitted over sexual offences with young men. He died in London on 15 August 1929. A finely decorated memorial plaque to him can be seen at the Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop"
"it, he combats modern philosophy and recommends the study of Böhme. In 1826, when the new university was opened in Munich, he was appointed professor of philosophy and speculative theology. He published some of his lectures there in 4 parts from 1827 to 1836 under the title "". In 1838, he publicly opposed the interference of the Roman Catholic Church in civil matters and, in consequence, was interdicted from lecturing on the philosophy of religion during the last three years of his life. He died on 23 May 1841. He is buried in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich. It is"
"7 February 1449. February 8th 1449 saw Oriel College granting him rent-free accommodation for the rest of his life. Thomas died on 13 March 1458 and was buried in New College, Oxford. Gascoigne compiled his magnum opus, ""Dictionarium Theologicum"" (or ""Liber de Veritatibus""), between c. 1434 and his death in 1458. In this, he reported the story of Chaucer's deathbed repentance for his literary sins. Thomas Gascoigne (academic) Thomas Gascoigne (1404–1458) was an English medieval theologian and academic administrator. He was twice Vice-Chancellor and twice Chancellor of Oxford University. Thomas was born in Hunslet, near Leeds, only son to the"
"the prestigious Gifford Lectures on the topic ""The Philosophy of the Good Life"" at the University of St Andrews. Gore died on 17 January 1932 in Kensington, London. He left instructions for his body to be cremated, a practice seen by some at the time as unacceptable for a Christian. Nearly three decades earlier, in a letter read at the 1903 opening ceremony of the Birmingham Crematorium, Gore had written: Gore's wishes provoked the Anglo-Catholic leader and politician Lord Halifax to exclaim, belatedly, ""I could shake the life out of him with my own hands."" The ashes were taken to"
"the following inscription: ""In memory of Professors of the University of Glasgow and members of their family whose bodies were interred in Blackfriars Churchyard and removed here in 1876."" Thomas Reid's tombstone Thomas Reid D.D. (1710–1796), was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and founder of the Scottish common sense movement in philosophy. Remarkably, his tombstone is to be found in the vestibule of the main building of Glasgow University and directly under the 85m (278 feet) high tower of the Gilbert Scott Building. Reid’s remains were originally laid in Blackfriars Church burial-ground, in the grounds of"
"the 21st Century. The University Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin views itself as the successor of the Dublin Philosophical Society, and thus recognises Molyneux as its founder and first president. Molyneux died in Dublin on 11 October 1698 and was buried in St. Audoen's Church, within the burial vault of his great-grandfather, Sir William Ussher. William Molyneux William Molyneux (; 17 April 1656 – 11 October 1698) was an Irish writer on science, politics and natural philosophy. He is noted as a close friend of fellow philosopher John Locke, and for proposing Molyneux's Problem, a thought experiment widely discussed."
"author of ""The Concept of Mind"", and Derek Parfit, who specialised in personal identity. Other commonly read modern philosophers to have studied at the university include A. J. Ayer, Elizabeth Anscombe, Paul Grice, Iris Murdoch, Thomas Nagel, Bernard Williams, Robert Nozick, Onora O'Neill, John Rawls, Michael Sandel, and Peter Singer. John Searle, presenter of the Chinese room thought experiment, studied and began his academic career at the university. Likewise, Philippa Foot, the creator of the famous trolley problem, studied and taught at Oxford. Some 150 Olympic medal-winners have academic connections with the university, including Sir Matthew Pinsent, quadruple gold-medallist rower."
"was buried in the chapel of the English College. Francis Fenwick Francis Fenwick, D.D. (1645–1694), was an English Benedictine monk. Fenwick was born in London in 1645, entered the convent of St. Edmund, Paris, where he was professed 1 November 1664. He was created a doctor of the Sorbonne, and afterwards elected prior of St. Edmund's in 1689. He was an eloquent preacher and in great repute with James II, who sent him as his agent to the court of Rome. Afterwards the general chapter of the order appointed him abbot-president of the college of St. Gregory at Rome. He"
"Thomas Reid's tombstone Thomas Reid D.D. (1710–1796), was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and founder of the Scottish common sense movement in philosophy. Remarkably, his tombstone is to be found in the vestibule of the main building of Glasgow University and directly under the 85m (278 feet) high tower of the Gilbert Scott Building. Reid’s remains were originally laid in Blackfriars Church burial-ground, in the grounds of Glasgow College in the High Street, Glasgow. The tombstone was removed when the College moved to Gilmorehill in 1870. It was placed in its present position when the building"
"the income could not be awarded to a holder of the chair who was a minister of any religion. Instead, the income was to be held back and reinvested until a lay person was again appointed. Grote died in 1871 and in 1876, two years before her own death, his widow Harriet Grote passed on the £6000 to the college. Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic The Grote Chair of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic is an endowed chair at University College London. Along with Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Logic (originally called Logic and"
"the Inner Temple in 1716 and Jesus College, Cambridge in 1717. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728, and died in 1767. Attribution Samuel Clarke Samuel Clarke (11 October 1675 – 17 May 1729) was an English philosopher and Anglican clergyman. He is considered the major British figure in philosophy between John Locke and George Berkeley. Clarke was born in Norwich, the son of Edward Clarke, an alderman of Norwich and Member of Parliament, and brother of John Clarke. He was educated at Norwich School and Caius College, Cambridge. His tutor at Caius was John Ellis, a"
"College and when the university moved to Gilmorehill in the west of Glasgow, his tombstone was inserted in the main building. See separate article on Thomas Reid's tombstone. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of ""sensus communis"") is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind. By contrast, Reid"
"Chambers was closely involved with Combe's associates William A.F. Browne and Hewett Cottrell Watson who did much to spell out the materialist theory of the mind. Chambers died in 1871 and is buried in the grounds of St Andrews Cathedral, within the ancient chapel of St Regulus. The book was published by John Spriggs Morss Churchill in London. Great pains were undertaken to secure the secret of the authorship from Churchill, and the public. After Chambers completed each section, his wife copied the manuscript, because Chambers was well known in the trade. Alexander Ireland of Manchester delivered the manuscript to"
"Finch, to Constantinople. He made arrangements for discharging his professorial duties by deputy, but, on account of his prolonged absence, he was deprived of the chair before the news of his death, at Constantinople on 5 September 1680, had reached England. Baines's remains were embalmed by Sir John Finch, who brought them with him on his return to England, and deposited them in the chapel of Christ's College, Cambridge. Finch died shortly afterwards, and was buried in the same grave, above which there is an epitaph in Latin to their joint memories by Henry More. Portraits of Baines and Finch"
"Oxford's Merton College where he remained until his death in 1924. Bradley is buried in Holywell Cemetery in Oxford. During his life, Bradley was a respected philosopher and was granted honorary degrees many times. He was the first British philosopher to be awarded the Order of Merit. His fellowship at Merton College did not carry any teaching assignments and thus he was free to continue to write. He was famous for his non-pluralistic approach to philosophy. His outlook saw a monistic unity, transcending divisions between logic, metaphysics and ethics. Consistently, his own view combined monism with absolute idealism. Although Bradley"
"at the Royal Institution. In 1874 he returned to Edinburgh University to succeed Bennett as professor of physiology there. Rutherford lectured at the University of Edinburgh when Arthur Conan Doyle studied medicine there. Like his fictional character Sherlock Holmes, who was based on a real person, Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger was based on Rutherford. From 1881 his laboratory assistant was Sutherland Simpson. He died 21 February 1899 at 14 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh. He was not married and had no children, so he was buried with his parents in Ancrum parish churchyard. His chair at the university was filled by Prof"
"said this was because of the impression Gother had made by his saintliness on the ship's captain. On arrival at Lisbon it was conveyed to the English College, where it was interred in the chapel. The College remained in function until the last quarter of the 20th century. His work, ""A Papist Misrepresented and Represented"", lists at length commonly held errors as to Catholic doctrine and practice. All such errors are duly ""refuted"" in the manner of the time, but courteously and in an English style that was well regarded. Various Anglican divines made reply, including notably Edward Stillingfleet, later"
"a ‘prominent London cleric’. When Mary succeeded to the throne, he was imprisoned for 15 months, for belief in two (instead of seven) sacraments, and for refusal to hold to the doctrines of transubstantiation, the necessity of confession to a priest, and the universal authority of the Pope. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs records that, at the stake, he said ‘Welcome the cross of Christ, welcome everlasting life’. Robert Glover was also educated at Cambridge University, and was a fellow of King's College. He was tried at Lichfield, and burnt in Coventry on 20 September 1555. Cornelius Bongey, or Bungey, was"
"their endowment. Two readerships were founded at Merton College, Oxford, and a lecture St John's College, Cambridge. The Oxford foundation was revived by the university commissioners in 1856 in the form of the Linacre professorship of anatomy. At St John's College the funds are still in use today; since 1989 the College has hosted an annual ‘Linacre Lecture’ on a subject in medicine, delivered by a leading research scientist in their field. Linacre is listed on a modern monument in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in London as one of the important graves lost in the Great Fire of"
"he was unfortunately not able to accept. Mannheim died in London and was cremated at Golder's Green Crematorium. His ashes were placed in the columbarium there in an urn and later mixed with those of his wife Julia. He was originally placed opposite Sigmund Freud as a planned pairing, but Freud was later relocated. Mannheim's book ""Ideologie und Utopie"" (1929) was the most widely debated book by a living sociologist in Germany during the Weimar Republic. The English version ""Ideology and Utopia"" (1936) has been a standard in American-style international academic sociology, carried by the interest it aroused in the"
"Christ’s College.” He wrote of William Butler: ""“The Dr. lying at the Savoy in London, next the water side where was a balcony look’t into the Thames, a patient came to him that was grievously tormented with an ague. The Dr. orders a boat to be in readiness under his window, and discoursed with the patient (a gent) in the balcony, when on a signal given, 2 or 3 lusty fellows came behind the gent, and threw him a matter of 20 feet into the Thames. This surprise absolutely cured him.” Of Ben Jonson: “He lies buried in the north"
"of apoplexy, and after partially recovering died on the 25th. He was buried in Trinity College, close to the statue of Newton, at the opposite end of the chapel to where rest the remains of Bentley. He did not discriminate between the manuscripts he used, or point out the relative value of the early copies. Thus he collates minutely Lascaris's edition of the ""Medea"", mentioning even misprints in the text. His most brilliant emendations are convincing. His library was divided into two parts, one of which was sold by auction; the other, containing the transcript of the ""Gale Photius"", his"
"Shelley Memorial The Shelley Memorial is a memorial to the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) at University College, Oxford, England, the college that he briefly attended and from which he was expelled for writing a pamphlet on ""The Necessity of Atheism"". Although Shelley was expelled from the college, he remains one of its most famous alumni and is now held in high honour there. In 2005, the college acquired some of Shelley's letters to further enhance its connection with the poet. The memorial consists of a white marble sculpture of a reclining nude and dead Shelley washed up on"
"entertaining a young undergraduate when her father interrupted them. She hid the student in a wardrobe (which college records state only opened from the outside) where he was left for a long time and asphyxiated. Elizabeth, in a fit of grief, committed suicide. John Spencer (priest) John Spencer (1630–1693) was an English clergyman and scholar, and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. An erudite theologian and Hebraist, he is best remembered as the author of ""De Legibus Hebraeorum"", a pioneer work of comparative religion, in which he advanced the thesis that Judaism was not the earliest of mankind's religions. He"
"of accusers of William Wolsey and Richard Pygot, and he was involved in the trial of the Protestant martyr Richard Woodman in Southwark. He was a member of a commission under direction from Stephen Gardiner to reintroduce Catholicism to the University of Cambridge. He died in 1558. He had been put under house arrest following his definition of Protestantism as “a new invention of new men and heresies” on 27th November 1558, preached in response to a sermon at Paul's Cross. He died in the end of December 1588, either the 22nd or the 28th, and was buried at Christchurch,"
"a political philosophy the book utterly fails …"". When Beatrice Webb died in 1943, the casket containing her ashes was buried in the garden of their house in Passfield Corner. Lord Passfield's ashes were also buried there in 1947. Shortly afterwards, George Bernard Shaw launched a petition to have both reburied to Westminster Abbey, which was eventually granted. Today, the Webbs' ashes are interred in the nave of Westminster Abbey, close to those of Clement Attlee and Ernest Bevin. He and his wife were friends with the philosopher Bertrand Russell. In 2006, the London School of Economics, alongside the Housing"
"which the Wilkinson family had kept the head since 1815. The box was placed into an airtight container and buried with only a few witnesses, including family and representatives of the college. The secret burial was not announced until October 1962. The authenticity of the head has long been debated, and has resulted in several scientific analyses. The most notable and detailed of these was Karl Pearson and Geoffrey Morant's study conducted in the 1930s, which concluded that the Wilkinson head was that of Cromwell. Rumours and conspiracy theories have circulated since Cromwell's head fell from Westminster Hall. According to"
"requested in his will; his head was preserved in a jar and is still displayed with his collection at the Museum of Psychiatry and Criminology in Turin. Lombroso's theories were disapproved throughout Europe, especially in schools of medicine, with Alexandre Lacassagne in France, but not in the United States, where sociological studies of crime and the criminal predominated. His notions of physical differentiation between criminals and non-criminals were seriously challenged by Charles Goring (""The English Convict"", 1913), who made elaborate comparisons and found insignificant statistical differences. Self-proclaimed the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, Lombroso is purported to have coined the"